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AMD's HD7970 is ready for action! The most effiency and fastest card on earth.

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But on Linux we don't use DirectX except for Wine and Gallium3D. We're stuck with OpenGL which is slower on AMD cards.

Wine does not use DirectX natively, it implements the same APIs using OpenGL so effectively they're the same. I heard there was a DirectX state tracker for Gallium3D but I've never heard of anyone using it, I don't think it's usable for anything yet (and IMO probably never will be).

Raw performance is not really that impressive, the gtx590 beats it in most other tests, and AMD's own HD6990 is faster in almost every test, what is really impressive is the power usage, especially when idle.

Lets hope this low power usage will allow AMD to later release a HD7990 that will also impress with it's raw power alone.